What a difference 100 years makes.

US statistics for 1902:

The average life expectancy in the US was 47.

Only 14 Percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.

There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads.

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.

The average wage in the US was 22 cents an hour. The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.

More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home.

Ninety percent of all US physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."

Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason.

The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were: Pneumonia and influenza, Tuberculosis, Diarrhea, Heart disease and Stroke.

The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn\'t been admitted to the Union yet.

The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 60.

One in ten US adults couldn\'t read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.

There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire US!

*wonders what it will be like in the next 100 years*

I wonder if they\'ll have a cure for Cancer and the common cold.  I\'m also curious if a new form of transportation will replace cars like the ones in Minority Report.  That\'d be cool.  Play videogames & surf the web during the commute to work.  I also hope computers one day will be small enough to fit in your lap.

[Titan]

They\'ll never have a cure for the common cold. I just had one. I have it under control. Took Coldeeze and some echinacea. Gone in a weekend...sortof. I still have a little sniffle but thats it. I say deal with the cold. You have it for a week. Cancer however, they are getting much closer and I think they\'ll have a cure within the next 20 years. AIDs is almost curable now, at an expensive price. We had some scientist at our school talking about AIDs and said something about some kind of treatment (I fell asleep during that. Boring as hell. I got woken up by my teacher. I remember only bits and parts). There are people immune to AIDs. If you are a decendant of a survivor of the Bubonic or Pnuemonic Plague, chances are, your immune.

wow, that intresting about the thing about aids, still wouldnt wanna test that theroy. cant belive diaharea was a common cause of death....


wow im actually surprised 8% of the pop had phones, wow that real cool read, try and find stats like that for this year, would be cool to compare them

yea, it was known as dysentery(sp?) in those days and was pretty deadly. Mainly b/c it dehydrates you so much.

Originally posted by luckee


The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 60.

 

Thats like one classroom nowadays.